Got my first spam from

Got my first spam from signing up on a guestbook – Hey Kelly – afraid yours is the guilty party 🙁 They were offering me the klez removal tool – which was probably the virus itself! After all if you have klez on your computer then you don’t have an av tool, so how are you going to know that the unsolicited attachment is not klez itself! On other anti-virus software news, I am going to remove mcaffee from this computer as it really is pants. When this machine got infected (twice) with Magistr it was unable to repair the files and they had to be deleted – and they were a few windows files! I updated the software by hand (as there is no automatic update facility) and it found yet another virus on the computer – downloader-aw trojan. However, when you look on their website to get more information on this virus – it is not listed! The nearest that I could find is that it was created using a virus toolkit. If that is the case, then how come the software didn’t pick it up – the toolkit has probably been around for yonks! Norton’s AV is going on real soon!
Update Instructions on removing downloader-w trojan are on mcafee’s site (note name difference!)

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